The 2008 Valliere's Natural Cycles Almanac is Here!
An indispensable yearly sourcebook, Valliere's Natural Cycles Almanac gives you vital planetary information that you won't find in an ephemeris. Detailed monthly graphs of planetary risings, settings, high and low points show when the planets will be most active at your spot on earth during 2008. The graphs are shaded to show you the all-round best times for taking action. Full instructions make them easy for even non-astrologers to understand. The graphs come spiral-bound in a handy 8 1/2 x 11 size, and you can copy them for personal use.
Important Planetary Information You Won’t Find Elsewhere by Patricia White
While the ephemeris shows you where planets are in the zodiac, it doesn’t show the times of day when each planet is most active at your location on earth.
Valliere’s Natural Cycles Almanac is based on the observations of the Gauquelins and many other astrologers -- namely, that planets tend to be at their strongest and most active when they are near the angles of the chart. This means the brief times each day when they are rising, setting, culminating (near the MC) or anticulminating (near the IC) as seen from your spot on earth.
Valliere’s Almanac shows these key times of day in twelve “Kinetic Mundascope” graphs that give you the whole picture of each month at a glance. The graphs are centered on New York City, which gives them maximum accuracy around 40 North 45 latitude, but which also makes them usable for all of the lower 48 states of the U.S.
The KM graph for January, 2008. The hours, beginning with midnight, are shown across the top and bottom of the graph. The days are shown along the sides, with “S” denoting Sundays. Note January 26 at about 9 am, when the Moon, at 0 declination, set at the same time that Uranus rose and Mars was on the IC.
The All-Purpose “Good” Hours in 2008
To give you a quick idea of the times that are best for undertaking almost any kind of activity, the graphs are shaded to show the times of day when only the benefic bodies (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter) are crossing the horizon or meridian. During these hours, the benefics are “in the foreground” and especially strong and active.
Sometimes, however, the shaded zones get canceled out by one or more of the so-called “malefic” bodies (Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune or Pluto) crossing the horizon or meridian at the same time as the benefic bodies. Occasionally, even, there are days when there are no shaded zones at all, or at least none during waking or business hours. These are days when it’s wisest to refrain from taking important actions or decisions -- or at least to exercise special discipline and caution when doing so. In contrast to 2007, during 2008 we are fortunate in having only one completely unshaded period of any significant length:
Jan 20-Feb 2: All the shaded “good for almost any activity” zones disappear for a two-week period as the Sun approaches Neptune and both become active at about the same times each day. During these times the clarity and strength that one usually expects during the Sun-active hours (sunrise, noon, sunset and midnight) is compromised by Neptunian weakness, vagueness and deception. This problem is compounded after Jan 23 when the lines indicating the Mercury- and Mars-active hours converge on the Neptune lines. The effect is a further muddling of communication combined with a blunting of initiative and a confusion about self defense. During this whole period it is wise to sit back and refrain from taking any important or crucial action that requires clarity, strength and straightforwardness.
The succeeding pages in Valliere’s Almanac for 2008 show that in the coming year there are only two other very brief periods when the energy of the generally benefic planets is diluted in this way. The only other times when the shaded zones disappear entirely during waking hours are:
Apr 15-17: All shaded zones disappear as Mars lines overheat the important Sun/Mercury/Jupiter-active hours around 6:30-7:30 am, 1 pm and 6:30-8 pm.
Oct 15-18: Jupiter rises near the same time that Mars culminates--so that around 1:30-2:30 pm on these dates, there is the danger of energies going over the top and becoming reckless and overbearing. This is reinforced on Oct 20, when the Moon sets shortly before 2 pm.
During the rest of 2008, there are always some shaded zones during the waking hours. This means that there will always be some especially good times during the day to make that important phone call, sign that contract, or schedule a pleasant social occasion. The Almanac will tell you when.
All this is not to say that periods when only the so-called “malefic” planets (like Mars, Saturn, Neptune Uranus and Pluto) are active are necessarily “bad.” It’s just that, when such planets are active, more discretion is needed. Every planet is appropriate for certain types of activity, so, for example, if you time your detailed and exacting work for when Saturn crosses the horizon or meridian, your meditation for when Neptune is angular, or your psychotherapy for when Pluto is active, these planets can give you extra impetus for reaching these specialized kinds of goals.
Planet labeling on the lines plus a list of planetary keywords on each graph suggest the specific nature of the energies being raised at your locality hour by hour.
Other Useful Information
Looking at how the lines relate to each other provides additional information. In the graphs you will see points at which planet lines converge, indicating that they cross the angles at or near the same time of day. These planets are “in paran”-- an aspect-like relationship that, being latitude-specific, holds true only at certain specific points on earth. At your parallel of latitude, a pair of planets that are in paran act like an aspect that is in effect all day.
Sometimes you will note not just two planet lines crossing, but a whole tangle of crossing or close-together lines around the same date and time. The lines can stay together for days or even weeks. The flip side of having bunched-up lines is usually long periods during the same days when there are no planetary lines at all. Such days are characterized by concentrated bursts of planetary (and human) energy at particular times, interspersed with long “dead” periods when no planet is having a stimulating effect. This information could be useful, for example, when staffing phone lines or gauging trading activity on an exchange.
An Indicator of Zero Declination
Another bit of useful data that you can see from the KM graphs is the dates when planets become especially strong because of reaching zero declination. This information is provided by two extra lines in addition to the usual ones for rising, setting, etc.
When you look at the graphs, you will see that each planet (Sun through Pluto) has a number of lines, including a separate line labeled “R” for rising, “S” for setting, “M” for culminating (crossing the upper meridian near the MC), and “I” for anticulminating (crossing the lower meridian near the IC).
In addition, near the rising line for each planet you will note a line marked “E” for “easting,” and near its setting line you’ll see a line marked “W” for “westing.” The E and W lines show when a planet would be rising or setting not at the 40 degrees North geographical latitude that the graphs are set for, but instead when viewed from the Earth’s equator.
To see how the E and W lines reveal when a point is at zero declination, just look at the graphs for March and September. Around the 21st of these months (the equinoxes), you will see that the Sun’s R and E lines converge and cross over, as do its S and W lines. This, of course, is when the Sun crosses the equator and has zero declination. At these times, the moments of sunrise and sunset are the same when seen from all latitudes on earth along a given line of longitude.
The same is true of any planet when it has zero declination. Usually the exact time when a planet rises and sets varies according to the latitude of the observer. However, when a planet has zero declination, people at all latitudes on earth experience the “strong” pulse of the planet’s rising or setting at the same moment. This tends to reinforce the effect of a planet, and is one reason why zero declination is considered such an important event in a planet’s orbital cycle.
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